Friends in fast breaks,

This week was Survivor nirvana. These are rare, so you have to appreciate it when they appear, because they're usually gone just as fast as they appear. Our player picking wasn't as lucky, but it was moreso a lack of picks available for many of the biggest players than terrible performances or DNPs pulling us down; That's the whole strategy bit that makes it hard!

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RESULTS SUMMARY

Points One-And-Done

G. Antetokounmpo posted a high of 48 points for 5 pickers on a ridiculous 20-28 FG performance. That efficiency is just nasty!

L. Doncic and C. Thomas were right behind with 40 points each, with only 7 and 3 pickers respectively. 

That means our best possible weekly performance was 88 points. We didn't manage to hit that, but @Trebs did manage 76 points with a Luka/Brunson combo, just like a couple years ago in Dallas.

Our other top scorers were J. Brunson (36 pts) and K. Durant (35), along with a handful between 30 and 34.

Our top pick, K. Towns managed a middling 19 points for 56 pickers. He was the worst of the high volume picks, but 19 isn't a death knell for your totals.

Best value pick goes to any of our top 3 - Giannis, Luka, and Cam were all picked by 7 or fewer people, meaning you snatched a stellar performance if you were one of the few riding with them.

We scored 23.8 points per pick, a relatively meh but not miserable performance so far. 

For DNPs, 5 pickable players from our roster didn't play, leading to 25 DNP picks. This was driven heavily by Kyrie again (15). This cause one Double DNPs, resulting in zero points.

As always - Double check the injury report (linked on the pick page) on Thursday or Friday to make sure your picks aren't out. We leave a note on known injured players during the week and remove players with longer-term injuries to try and help prevent this issue, but you have to take control of your destiny here.

Overall Standings Check In - @aphanson7 broke out to assume the lead after last week's tie. Prizes cut off at 20th, which sits at 786 points right now. But with the scoring explosion, this is anyone's game!

Interval 2 Check In - There's one week left for this to shake out! @Jscala is sitting pretty at 527 points, a 26 point lead over second. There are three Intervals and five places each, meaning every few weeks you've got something new to play for.

Squads Check In - Team SZN is still in first with 2,312 points. We can't win though, so DFS Sweatshop is currently in the REAL lead with 2,248 points.

Survivor #1

There was a SINGLE incorrect picks this week, resulting in one elimination. That's just unheard of. We had a 98.5% win rate. We lost 0.3% of the Pool in the process. We now stand at 19.0% remaining.

Our sole loss was a missed pick, tragic. Every made pick was correct.

Overall Standings Check In - There are still 65 players alive, 20 with no mistakes and 45 with one mistake. Double picks are coming soon!

Squads Check In - DFS Sweatshop stayed in the lead with 38 wins.

All 30 One-And-Done

Another extremely successful week for us, with a win rate of 90.2% this week. We went 9-10 on our teams picked, but obviously we threw our weight into those 9 right teams.

Overall Standings Check In - There's now a 5-way tie for the lead with 14 wins. Reminder that the NFL's All 32 Pool lasted through 11 weeks and 18 total picks with perfect records. We don't start double picks until Week 19, so we'll see if anyone can last until then staying unbeaten.

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 38 wins. 

Survivor #2

There were 22 incorrect picks this week, leading to 16 eliminations. We lost 6.6% of the Pool after a great 87.0% win rate.

Our biggest loss was PHX with 5 pickers, so we came out great.

Overall Standings Check In - There are 153 players alive, 60 with no mistakes and 93 with one mistake. 

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel is in the lead with 11 correct so far.

Weekly Pick'em

We bounced back a bit this week with a 62.1% win rate. That averages out to 9.9 correct picks out of 16 games.

Our biggest miss was ORL @ MIN, where only 5.6% correctly picked ORL to win. 

We had a 7-way tie for first this week with 13/16 - @NEELERSBTB1, @UWWDietz, @UncleDrewww, @cjlee16, @jdrobny, @mitchbob, and @scottgmcmullan. They'll split the weekly prize.

Overall Standings Check In - @RDH24 jumped into 1st with 48 wins so far. 4 weeks down, 9 more to go!

Squads Check In - Basket-Balling with Nigel and DFS Sweatshop are tied at the top with 132 wins.  

Yours in Roundball Rock,
The GM